University Associate Professor

My research group includes people in the Dept of Chemistry and in the Dept of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).  We investigate questions from physics, chemistry and mathematics, using the theory of statistical mechanics to understand the behaviour of complex systems including biomolecules, glassy liquids, and soft matter.  I am particularly interested in co-operative dynamics: for example, how do molecules move in crowded environments?  What are the co-operative mechanisms for colloidal self-assembly, and the folding of biomolecules?

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Publications

Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition
YS Elmatad, RL Jack, D Chandler, JP Garrahan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2010)
107
Second-order dynamic transition in ap=2spin-glass model
K van Duijvendijk, RL Jack, F van Wijland
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2010)
81
Metastable states and space-time phase transitions in a spin-glass model.
RL Jack, JP Garrahan
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2010)
81
Large Deviations and Ensembles of Trajectories in Stochastic Models
RL Jack, P Sollich
Progress of Theoretical Physics
(2010)
184
Duality Symmetries in Driven One-Dimensional Hopping Models
P Sollich, RL Jack
Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
(2010)
184
Dynamic order-disorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers
LO Hedges, RL Jack, JP Garrahan, D Chandler
Science
(2009)
323
First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories
JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte, E Pitard, K van Duijvendijk, F van Wijland
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
(2009)
42
Subdiffusive motion in kinetically constrained models
RL Jack, P Sollich, P Mayer
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2008)
78
Duality between random trap and barrier models
RL Jack, P Sollich
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2008)
41
Negative differential mobility of weakly driven particles in models of glass formers
RL Jack, D Kelsey, JP Garrahan, D Chandler
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2008)
78

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01223 763865

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